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Stamina
How long can you paint for?
I find that after four or five hours (with a ten minute break every hour-and-a-half or so) I no longer trust my ability to make good decisions and I stop painting. I'm brain dead and sometimes physically tired too.
I thought that I would be able to paint for longer sessions as I got used to doing it over the past couple of years, but it hasn't changed.
I can paint a bit longer if I'm doing a sit-down session (working on face details, for example) but today I was working on a large section of a 40" painting so I needed to stand up, squat down, adjust the easel, walk back and forth a lot, etc. I ran out of steam after less than five hours.
If I take a break and do something else for a few hours I might be able to paint again for two hours in the evening, but that's about it.
I paint typically four or five days a week so this equals an average of 20 hours of painting time. Not enough to get done what I want to do!
I have read some folks on this board can paint for 10 hours a day, and have heard others say that two to four hours should be one's maximum, so that an artist is always "working at the top of their form".
How long can you paint for?
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